Waters Corporation
Health Care
38
out of 100. Number 325 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Waters Corporation does well
- Renewals 2 of 20. Few problems found.
- The arbitration/class-waiver section is explicitly marked 'U.S. ONLY' — international visitors are not bound by it.
- Waters offers a written opt-out procedure at all, with exact instructions; many consumer terms offer none.
- Small-claims court claims and government-agency actions are expressly preserved, not swept into arbitration.
- On user submissions, Waters states it 'does not claim ownership' of your communications — it takes a license, not an ownership grab.
- The library download form uses affirmative opt-in consent language ('I agree to receive marketing... communications') rather than a pre-ticked box.
Nearly any dispute you have with Waters — including over its ads, pricing, or how it handles your data — must go to private binding arbitration instead of court.
The fine print
6 clauses and findings from the draft archive, dated 1 October 2026. The plain English comes first; the small print is the company's own words. None of these has been checked yet.
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Nearly any dispute you have with Waters — including over its ads, pricing, or how it handles your data — must go to private binding arbitration instead of court.
To the fullest extent permissible by law, with the exception of disputes pertaining to Waters' intellectual property rights and certain statutory claims that, pursuant to law, are not arbitrable, any dispute of any kind between you and Waters including, without limitation, arising under these Terms; your visit to this Website; or to any purchase, transaction, or other interaction with Waters (including, without limitation, claims relating to Waters' advertisements, pricing, and disclosures; or Waters' collection, processing or retention of your information) (a 'Dispute') shall be resolved through binding arbitration pursuant to these exclusive dispute resolution procedures, except that you may assert claims in small claims court or seek action through government agencies.
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You give up class-action and jury-trial rights; disputes can only be fought one person at a time. (The section is marked 'U.S. ONLY'.)
ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDING WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS, REPRESENTATIVE, OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION ... NEITHER YOU NOR WATERS MAY ACT AS A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR CLASS REPRESENTATIVE, NOR PARTICIPATE AS A MEMBER OF A CLASS OF CLAIMANTS, WITH RESPECT TO ANY DISPUTE OR CLAIM.
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You can opt out of arbitration — but only by personally signing a physical letter mailed to Massachusetts within 30 days of first visiting the site, a bar almost nobody will clear.
You may elect to opt-out (exclude yourself) from the final, binding arbitration procedure and waiver of class and representative proceedings specified in these Terms by sending a written letter to Waters at 34 Maple Street, Milford, MA, U.S.A. 01757; Attn: Legal Department (the 'Notice Address'), within thirty (30) calendar days of your initial agreement to these Terms. The letter must be signed personally by you or your legal guardian and specify: (1) your first and last name; (2) your mailing address; (3) your email address; and (4) your request to be excluded from the final, binding arbitration procedure and waiver of class and representative proceedings specified in this Section.
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Any claim against Waters must be filed within one year, which can cut off legal rights that statutes would otherwise give you more time to bring.
You agree that any and all claims be brought by you within one (1) year after the claim arises, except to the extent a longer period is required by applicable law.
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Anything you submit or post on the site is treated as non-confidential, and Waters gets a perpetual, irrevocable license to use, alter, publish, and sublicense it for any commercial purpose.
You hereby grant Waters, its affiliated companies, and its designees a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right, and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, copy, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, edit, reformat, distribute and sub-license the Communications (and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein) submitted by you to this Site and/or to incorporate it in other works regardless of form, medium or technology for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
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Waters can change the terms whenever it wants just by posting them, with no promise to notify you — the new terms bind you anyway.
Waters may revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms because they are binding on you.
How these were found
Terms of Use fetched 2026-10-01 via browser_open from the official waters.com domain; the page footer shows 'Copyright ©2025 Waters Corporation. All rights reserved.' and no explicit 'last updated' date appeared in the extracted text. The Privacy Notice page body is rendered client-side and text extraction returned only nav/footer, so no findings are drawn from the Privacy Notice itself; the only privacy-adjacent language verified is the Library download form consent text. Cookie Policy, Location-Specific Privacy Disclosures, and Terms and Conditions of Sales were not reviewed. No verbatim mirror exists (no OpenTermsArchive, ToSBack, or Difficode entry found for Waters Corporation); all quotes are from official waters.com pages read directly. Waters is a B2B lab-instrument company; these are website-visitor terms, and separate enterprise sales/service terms may apply.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.